Gobsmacked Poems - Poems about Gobsmacked

We secured the dogs in a chain link fenced pen I was gobsmacked to see the puppy ten minutes later How had he gotten out? Like a convict he had tunneled out In ten minutes making a hole under the gate Big enough to squeeze out his eighty-two-pound body A space ship could have fit into this hole! What is he doing...

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It came quite unbidden. A cancer diagnosis, leaving the fitness enthusiast gobsmacked. The doctor mouths "I'm...

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Gobsmacked, Bamboozled and Confused I was gobsmacked, bamboozled and confused when they showed me worn out crayons never unused for the lines they were destined to stay within were taken as a challenge - not a whim as the fists that clutched the colors misunderstood the concept of the lines - “for their own good” strayed with the exuberance of youth opened up...

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Gobsmacked and bamboozled and confused I peeked into the oven where the baking dishes slept resting in a pot of onion stew Couldn’t help but laughing, they were snoring as they wept dreaming of a casserole or two Picked a card while on the deck next to an old fruit tree in a three piece suit made out of hearts Thought I...

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Gobsmacked, bamboozled and confused — how to get one day back. Imagine if one day was robbed of all its good and bad? Perhaps a wedding, now she’s a virgin again- he doesn’t remember the present he unwrapped last night. Or a baby sucking its thumb back in the darkest womb - what happened to the light? You remember the terror of...

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Please explain this to me… This has me completely and thoroughly gobsmacked bamboozled and confused Where do people get off Feeling entitled Thinking they don’t have to Work to earn what they get Thinking life should be easy for them While they have absolutely No compassion for anyone else Quite satisfied the world Revolves around them And only them Oh, now I've said too much... AP: Honorable Mention 2022 Submitted on...

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Splatter painted, Pollock blessed, leggy I stand, among the green grass and healing Plantain in a kaleidoscope of color panned. A walking canvas in the meadowland stems, humorously stippled to entertain splatter painted, Pollock blessed; leggy I stand. Blush brushed by daylight, a cheeky garland; a stand bloomed within thin skinned constraints in a kaleidoscope of color panned. Pistils between...

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